So... We should go backwards instead of forward?

For thousands of years back you could trade people for cows, owning your life is a massive historical misunderstanding.

You could own the Mona Lisa. You could own the original Dante's inferno. For thousands of years there wasn't the technology to have a copy of the Iliad, then there was and you could have a copy that wasn't man-made, the press was born. You couldn't have a copy of a painting without a massive spending on a replica, then in 1600 in Japan with wooden blocks they mass distributed art of Hokusai. You couldn't own music until you could. You couldn't own performances until you could.

Those were never moral or logical reasons not to, the technology just didn't exists. Now the technology does exist and you say that because it didn't before, then it's a fluke?

For most of human history people died at early ages, we should go back to that and ditch all antibiotics I guess then, if "history" is the bar you're measuring "moral".

Also, guess what, the architect of the work was never in control of their art nor had the "moral authority" of how their work is consumed. Do you really thing that Homer personally went and trained everyone who wanted to interpret the Iliad? Your whole argument is based in something that didn't even existed in the first place with tons of examples of the contrary that the only thing I can think is that you're trolling or severely brainwashed.

They sold a product, not an "experience". Without massive access and preservation of art in all forms civilization couldn't even begin to grow as fast as it did in the last thousand years.

And before anything else, the mere concept of "owning" is the single most important part of capitalism, if they want to play the "owning" game then we should all be able to play the game. Also historically "owning" didn't exist. We should course correct to the one true way of tribadism and nomads. I guess.